Healthcare Practitioners

Cardiologists

SOC 29-1212

Diagnose and treat heart disease, including performing procedures.

Median pay

$496k

$274k to $610k typical range

Outlook

Growing fast

600 openings / yr

Education

Doctoral (MD) plus fellowship

AI displacement risk

Low

How much of this job AI may do instead of the person · our model, not a benchmark

Works with AI

29/100

AI alongside the person rather than instead of them

AI exposure

47th pct

More exposed than 47% of occupations · modeled estimate · 47th pct in Microsoft's data

Future-proof

92/100

Key skills

Cardiac medicine
Catheterization
Interpretation
Empathy
Stamina

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Pay and outlook from BLS (OEWS 2025, Employment Projections 2024-2034). Skills and work activities from O*NET 30.3. AI exposure and future-proof scores are modeled estimates. How these numbers are made.